American Bar Association Wants to Let Undocumented Immigrants Practice Law
By: The HillAugust 16, 2017
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American Bar Association Wants to Let Undocumented Immigrants Practice Law
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On Monday, The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates passed a resolution demanding that Congress let undocumented immigrants practice law. The bar suggests that lawmakers should add this block of text, written by the ABA’s Law Student Division, to 8 U.S.C. 5 § 1621(d):

A state court vested with exclusive authority to regulate admission to the bar may, by rule, order, or other affirmative act, permit an undocumented alien seeking legal status to obtain a professional license to practice law in that jurisdiction.

 

This article originally appeared on LawNewz.com.

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